Almost three weeks ago, my friends and I went on a exploration adventure of Tarlac, Philippines. One of the highlights of that trip was the whitewater kayaking trips we did for two days.
Here’s a short highlight video of our first day run in San Jose, Tarlac.
When I said I WANT to help the Philippines, my first goal was to find worthy advocacy to support. When my friend and fellow blogger Arpee Lazaro asked me to join the PWD. .PWeDE! Helping Persons with Disabilities Bloggers night and the launch of www.alfredvargas.net, I got interested. First, I’ve always wanted to help out in advocacies, and second, helping out PWDs comes easy for my family.
Last Sept. 14, My wife and I got invited again to an event in Orchard Road Restaurant in Megamall. This time they are launching a new play area in their store to cater to the kids (of all ages). I thought that the play area would be just the normal playsets with slides or toys. I was wrong again.
The new play area was a state-of-the-art interactive setup where human motion is captured to interact with a projected display on the ground. The setup offers several games that you can play using hand and feet gestures. It was a collaboration of Ochard Road and Playpoint Philippines (http://www.playpoint.asia/). The setup is called EyePlay, an interactive playground system, combining intuitive human motion with interactive floor or wall projections.
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Note: Much of what I’ll be doing in this post is share some trivia on Singapore food and culture. Why do I do know all these information? Well, I spent almost three (3) years there as a foreign worker. That experience has given me enough credibility on the subject, especially on the food. Read on…
Ok, the title may be confusing, but read on: There’s a Singapore Food Festival in Orchard Road, SM Mega Mall.
To remove some of the confusion, the original Orchard Road is in Singapore. The Road is a kilometer strip of shopping malls and is filled with shoppers, both foreign and locals. The Orchard Road I’m writing about is a restaurant on the second floor of SM Mega Mall, Mandaluyong City, Philippines. The owners of that restaurant built it to serve hawker-centre-type food. Again, for those that don’t know what a hawker center is, a hawker center is, wait… I’ll just list the three most common food places in Singapore so you understand better:
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